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Publication summary

Author(s): Ronald Giachetti and Kevin Jurrens

Publication date: March 1997

Citation: Ronald Giachetti and Kevin Jurrens: "Manufacturing Evaluation of Designs: A Knowledge-Based Approach," Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Information Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC, March 1-5, 1997.

Key words: classification, manufacturability evaluation, knowledge-base, fuzzy rules

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Abstract:

Manufacturing evaluation is performed with heuristics that are developed internally by the manufacturing experts in the company. Many of the existing manufacturing evaluation systems tely on highly specialized knowledge, extensive databases, and require a significant amount of time and cost that make these tools in general unavailable early in design and to small manufacturers who do not have this expertise. Oftentimes, the level of detail is unnecessarily precise. Useful results can be obtained at a more abstract level without the exact data required by existing systems. This research project is concerned with the modeling of the manufacturing capability process information and knowledge to support manufacturability evaluation of designs.

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